The effect of shared distinctiveness on source memory: An event-related potential study.

ABSTRACT: An illusory correlation (IC) is the erroneous perception that two actually uncorrelated categories are correlated. The Shared Distinctiveness Approach (SDA) explains ICs with heightened accessibility of distinctive category combinations in episodic memory. However, empirical evidence for this approach is heterogeneous. In the present event-related potential (ERP) study, we exploited the fact that more distinctive items elicit larger P300 responses than less distinctive items, which potentially predict subsequent memory performance differences for such items. Distinctiveness at encoding was created by presenting words that differed from frequently presented, positive words in valence, font color, or both. We hypothesized that shared distinctiveness (deviation in both color and valence) woul

SUBMITTER: Weigl M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7497493 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature